It's been so long....

Another email to them and this time, they replied me...


And now i can borrow books from the library!

Where is it??

28.08 - The day when NUS Student Services Center was officially opened.

They have lined up a whole day of bazaar activity, live performances, F&B treats and product giveaways.... But i couldnt make it due to a lousy monday timetable.

They probably have spent quite a lot of effort and time to plan this event such that up to today, I HAVE NOT RECEIVED my replacement matric card!

It has been 7 weeks since my report and payment of my lost matric card on 12 July and i have yet received an email from them, notifying me that my card is ready for collection..


It should have been 2 weeks only as stated on the collection slip!

I went down to ask them when it was 4 weeks already and the reply i got was : There might be a slight delay. Perhaps you could wait a few more days and they will send you an email.

My foot. Spent so much time planning for the official opening and forgot about my card?

I emailed them back, asking them to check if my card is ready or not. And, they didnt reply me even after 3 weeks.

WTH.

Replacement time for SAFRA card . . . : 10 minutes.
Replacement time for EZ-link card . . . : 30 minutes.
Replacement time for debit cards . . . .: 2 days
Replacement time for driving license. . : 4 days
Replacement time for NRIC . . . . . . . . : 1 month

Possible replacement time for NUS Matric card : 2 month?

Im trying to be optimistic.

Click, click, click

3 days of tutorial balloting and it was indeed frustrating...

After the first round of balloting, i did not get 2 of my tutorials.

What luck.

I could understand if i didnt get my breadth module's tutorial since competition is tough.

But i couldnt understand how i didnt get my core module's tutorial slot. That particular slot is scheduled in my timetable given by my department. Yet i didnt manage to get it despite balloting two classes at the same time slot.

Second round of balloting was successful in getting my tutorials, but are not my very first choices.

I left third round to try my luck in swapping.

For the third round is pretty much a 'first come, first get + fastest finger first'.

Logging in a few times in a day, i managed to grab the only 1 vacancy for my POE tutorial in the afternoon, after no luck in swapping. When i got home, just 30 minutes to closing, another 1 vacancy popped up for my CE module. Ha, lucky. Grabbed it, of course.

So now, im happy with my tutorials... haha


Despite having a rather packed timetable as compared to *ahem*arts*ahem* people, i still have two days - tuesday and wednesday - where i will end early, but that's provided i don't have lab and CE2184 tutorial for that week. Haha..

Ahh... EVE2 class gathering this saturday, but i cant go! Will be involved in Girl's Nation Dance Battle not as a dancer, but as a crew.... sianz..

Too tired to continue..

It was only the first week of school and i felt so worn off at the end of the week.

Besides, we only had lectures. It gonna be worse when tutorials and labs start!

I think i set a goal for this semester at the end of exams last semester. That is to pay attention during lectures and not sleep...

So far, I've managed to stay fully awake and listen attentively to the two arts modules i'm taking.

Hmmm... pretty much shows how boring Engin and Science lectures/lecturers are, isn't it?

I guess the worst was my last 1-hr lecture on friday afternoon and i probably slept 80% of the time. But, i couldnt help it when i only reached home at 3am++ after the Freshmen Bash at Zouk on the previous night. I couldnt sleep well (thanks to the mosquitoes) and i still gotta wake up at 6am for my 8am lecture.

Oh well, I just hate my timetable.

Sometimes i just envy Arts students and also those with late mornings classes!

I need to start studying.

Something new...

As usual, i'm never early/on time for my first lecture of the day.

This semester is going to be worst as 3 of my days start at 8am and 2 days start at 9am...

For the first 3 days of school, on average, i was late for 21.67 minutes for my lectures.

Hmmm.. I think it is time to wake up even earlier just to beat the morning traffic.

Had my first Principle of Economics lecture at 8am today. It was the first lecture at 8am that i never fell asleep at any point of time! A record.

The lecture was just too interesting. The lecturer does crack jokes, economics jokes...

And it was probably the first lecture that received claps from the students when it ended. Yes, it was only the first introduction lecture! Another record.

Ha, hopefully this will increase my liking my economics as i used to hate economics, thanks to my horrible tutor in JC!

No more party...

The end of rotting and slacking is going to start tomorrow.

SCHOOL!

3 months of vacation just passed in a flash. And i probably spent half the time rotting. Hmmm, ok maybe two-fifth.

Anyway, im taking 6 modules this semester. Seems like a lot of people are doing that as well....

EC1301 tutorial has not slotted in yet...
No more free day this semester and fortunately, some of the labs/practicals and tutorials are not weekly, or else i will surely concuss...

Carpe Diem

It was OC chalet on thursday and the usual 3 were there early to prepare food.

Because of the number of people going, we just planned a simple buffet dinner and ended up we couldnt finish all of them. A bit wasted.

Only 6 people stayed overnight and it was too little for the huge chalet space. Haha.

Played mahjong (no real money involved) til 6am and i actually won a lot of chips in the first round. Haha..

Didnt sleep much and only 4 left when we checked out.

Still, i needed to go home and rush down to NUS for a welcome tea.

Surprising, my batch of Environmental Engineering has only 28 people while the Year 3 batch has 36 and Year 1 has 43. But it is just nice for 1 class.

At least i will have classmates for the next 6 semesters!

Not Tokyo drift...

Drifting was fun but tiring.

In 4 hours, we drifted from Groove, to Main Arena, to Pure, to 54, to Groove, to 54 and to Groove.

Slept at 6am++.

School is starting soon and im still sleeping at odd hours. The night before, i slept at 7am+, thanks to a mahjong session.

Ok, somehow people seem to stop me from quitting it.

Did some shopping on the Nation's birthday and i've just added 3 more Giordano polo tees to my collection.

To date, i have 7 of them - striped, white, yellow, green, red, navy blue and grey.

Given more time, I could probably form a rainbow. And Giordano is not that lousy, okay.

Too random..

Nothing to talk about.

Been rotting at home for the past few days. So no life.

But still, gonna enjoy it while i can. 1 more week, and i will start burying myself in books for the next 15 weeks.

Project Superstar is coming. Ha, felt so tempting to go.

Just a dream, nonetheless.

Just some videos to entertain...


新不了情 - Nice rendition and he actually sang it at the original female key....


我要快樂, My Way.. He seemed a bit drunk, yet very emotional..

CORS time...

Sometimes i think Engineering has a group of quite disgusting formidable people....


There is no way i could fight with them to take Financial Accounting.

Im settled for Principle of Economics with just 1 point instead.

Stand up for........

It was NDP Preview just last saturday.

With the four tickets i've got, it took me quite some time to figure out who to ask to watch. But ended up a lot of people were not free.

Blame on my procrastination then.

Fortunately, still managed to pull people to watch, though they probably had to make some sacrifices... Ah...

When we arrived, we were just in time to see those parachuters....

Beautiful sky dotted with red parachuters..
The last parachuter with the Singapore flag!
As we were quite late, we ended up sitting quite low, probably the 5th or 6th row from the bottom level. Well, at least we got to see those performers clearly...

A packed stadium with sea of red!
Majulah Singapura!
Bomb Burst! Ahh.. Im too slow to capture all 5 planes...
Time for parade
Well, usually the parade is a bit boring and usually i will look forward to the night show and display. But too bad, im sitting at a very low level, hence, couldnt see the formation much. But hey, there is the NDP on actual day and i could watch it on tv!

And the show begins...
The precision drill that shot out fireworks from their rifles and i got them captured! Cool!
Saturn-looking light orb floating around.. Haha
This year's firework display was a bit special. They called it Musical Fireworks. Fireworks are actually integrated into the show and at times, they will burst out from the rim of the stadium and fan out....


And more nice fireworks pictures...


And they released red and white ballons into the air when it ended...

Not those big ones that they released...!
Happy National Day!
(in advanced)